Mississippi Marriage Laws | § 93-1-19 | Marriage May Be Solemnized According To Religious Customs. Marriage Laws

Mississippi Code Annotated 93-1-19

Marriage may be solemnized according to religious customs.

It shall be lawful for a pastor of any religious society in this state to join together in marriage such persons of the society to whom a marriage license has been issued, according to the rules and customs established by the society. The clerk or keeper of the minutes, proceedings, or other books of the religious society wherein such marriage shall be had and solemnized, shall make a true and faithful register of all marriages solemnized in the society, in a book kept by him for that purpose, and return a certificate of the same to the clerk of the circuit court of the county, to be by him recorded, under the penalty prescribed in Section 93-1-21.

Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 34, art. 1 (2); 1857, ch. 40, art. 2; 1871, § 1756; 1880, § 1151; 1892, § 2863; 1906, § 3248; Hemingway’s 1917, § 2555; 1930, § 2366; 1942, § 464.

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§ 93-1-17 By whom marriages may be solemnized.
§ 93-1-1 Certain marriages declared incestuous and void.
§ 93-1-19 Marriage may be solemnized according to religious customs.
§ 93-1-13 License essential.
§ 93-1-5 Conditions precedent to issuance of license; penalty for noncompliance.
§ 93-1-3 Unlawful marriage; effect of marrying outside of and returning to state.
§ 93-1-9 Noncompliance with §§ 93-1-5 and 93-1-7 not to affect validity of solemnized marriage followed by cohabitation.
§ 93-1-11 Hours for issuance of licenses.
§ 93-1-15 License and solemnization required for valid marriage.
§ 93-1-18 Validation of certain marriages performed by mayors.
§ 93-1-23 Custodian of records relating to marriage licenses
§ 93-1-25 Solicitation of marriage ceremony unlawful; penalty.